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Body Joy – Inspired Medicine Through Movement

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • miracles in motion…3-12-24

    I remember deepening into our amazing nervous system in physical therapy school.  Dissecting fragile filaments from muscle and fascia.  Memorizing the radial nerve course.  Studying transmission chemical magic at the synapse.  In my own body, feeling the movement impulse translate to coordinated action; sensation of muscle and bone relayed back for brain interpretation. The miracle […]

  • BIG FEELINGS are definitely dangerous…3-6-24

    BIG FEELINGS are definitely dangerous.  A guiding principle for my wee self.  An old story.  One I’ve spiraled through with the support of skilled therapists and played out on many a dance floor.  A story I’ve fleshed out in memoir and poetry pages over the years.  Writing as trusty transformational conduit, just like dance.  And […]

  • Taking flight…2-21-24

    Have you been watching the nesting eagles in So Cal?  Mesmerizing, they inhabit my kitchen, creatures prompting me about the essential.  Being.  Taking care. Tending. Breathing.  Resting.  Taking nourishment.  Flight.  On Sunday, on the dance floor, the eagles began to inhabit my very being.  My upper limbs grew into rib cage anchored wings, feathering out […]

  • motion in my body=movement in my heart…2-16-24

    You know me as mover—with you in yoga or physical therapy.  And maybe know me through dance. Movement in the body creates movement in our emotions. Motion breaks up stagnation in the emotion department.  And for that I am grateful.  Yes…I am a mover and I also love to write. This morning my writing began with […]

  • we are a bundle of nerves…2-4-24

     I am a bundle of nerves.  They course through me, ancient delivery system, giving and receiving.  Our autonomic nervous system: evolutionary miracle. Fight, flight, freeze have become part of our everyday lexicon.  We are for sure intimate with our built in stress response. Did you know Freeze came on line first, a survival strategy […]

  • surrender to the mystery…1-25-24

    Sometimes I show up as a student and sometimes I’m up front as a guide and this is a story of what arose fresh off that dance floor this week.  I teach on assigned dates and on Wednesday teach to an assigned topic. Perhaps it’s the release from ownership responsibility or the sledgehammer of Covid […]

  • crimes against wisdom…1-19-24

    When a forgotten word comes out from behind the curtain and re-inserts itself into my vocabulary it is such delight.  Welcome back prajnaparadha.  A Sanskrit word, prajna means wisdom and apradha translates as crime. So, the literal meaning of prajnaparadha is crime against wisdom. A term from aryuvedic medicine considered the first cause of disease.  […]

  • what my bones know…1-5-24

    I’m a big reader, always midst at least one book, often juggling a few.  What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo fell in my lap recently and pushed all the others aside, shouted READ ME.  I couldn’t put it down.  Even though the first part was hard.  In all too vivid detail, Foo recounts the […]

  • greetings to my yoga students and physical therapy patients…12-26-23

    Woke up energized this morning and took full advantage of that state to re-record the Introductory Videos on the website.  Three years ago they were formatted from an on-line series: hour long practices, four of ‘em.  They were so ready for streamlining and updating.  Want a boost?  15 minute essential sessions: foam rolling, ball releases, […]

  • the story of Sam…12-18-23

    Must’ve been 2007 when I first spent some deeply personal moments with Sam, who gave me permission to write this story.  A student in my roll and release workshop, we connected at Deep, now Yoga Shala.  We had already become acquainted on the dance floor.  He took to the rolling quickly, a super-kinesthetic learner.  Over […]

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